Acknowledgments vii
Introduction: The Shaw Brothers Diasporic Cinema 1
Poshek Fu
1. Shaw Cinema Enterprise and Understanding Cultural Industries 27
Lily Kong
2. Shaw's Cantonese Productions and Their Interactions with Contemporary Local and Hollywood Cinema 57
Law Kar
3. Embracing Glocalization and Hong Kong-Made Musical FIlm 74
Siu Leung Li
4. Three Readings of Hong Kong Nocturne 95
Paul G. Pickowicz
5. The Black-and-White Wenyi Films of Shaws 115
Wong Ain-ling
6. Territorialization and the Entertainment Industry of the Shaw Brothers in Southeast Asia 133
Sai-shing Yung
7. The Shaw Brothers' Malay FIlms 154
Timothy P. Barnard
8. Bridging the Pacific with Love Eterne 174
Ramona Curry
9. Black Audiences, Blaxploitation and Kung Fu Films, and Challenges to White Celluloid Masculinity 199
Sundiata Keita Cha-Jua
10. Shaw Brothers Cinema and the Hip-Hop Imagination 224
Fanon Che Wilkins
11. Reminiscences of the Life of an Actress in Shaw Brothers' Movietown 246
Cheng Pei-pei
(translated by Jing Jing Chang and Jeff McClain)
Select Filmography 255
Lane J. Harris
Contributors 257
Index 261